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Why computers suck at maths

November 1st, 2009 admin No comments

Here is a nice article describing the problems that rise due to the methods used in nowadays computers to calculate simple mathematics. Interesting read.

Multiscale Measurement Systems

August 12th, 2009 admin No comments


Zoom into Human Skin
von Weird_Weird_Science

Nice visualization of the use of multiscale measurement systems. Used sensors include a simple video camera, an opto-microscopic camera (maybe a confocal microscope) and i think they had to use an electronic microscope for the last steps. I like how they were able to smooth out the zoom operation accross the different scales.

More zoom-videos:

Great Mathematical Ressource

March 11th, 2009 admin No comments

I just found this nice educational ressource for numeric methods (i was specifically looking into LU decomposition).